Andrew McCabe, an experienced G-Man, claims to have been misunderstood due to the chaos that surrounded him. If the man couldn't manage to think straight "amidst the chaos," maybe it's best he's no longer Deputy Director of the FBI...

I'll be having rotator cuff surgery later this month. Recovery/rehab is said to be long & miserable...

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Y'all should have gotten an email concerning rule changes. Pete Hugo would like you to complete a survey on proposed NFHS rules changes.

Can't believe nobody has proposed changing wording for fly/breast turns/finishes from "two hands" to "two or more hands" or "at least two hands"...

On a more serious note, can you diving coaches explain why we now call them "voluntary" dives instead of "required" dives? Aren't they still required? What was the rationale for the change? I know it's been a while since the change, but it still bugs me!

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Help! Back in the 90's, I used to put together a 4A mythical state meet. Kind of like Swimming World's mythical national meet. Planning to do it again. I'll need meet result files from 5A district, region, and state meets to make this happen. I'll start working on it once a few results come rolling in.

Also, I'd like to do something similar for middle school/junior high. There are several big middle school meets around the state each year. If I can get those meet files, I might be able to put that together as well.

“At no time did I ever abuse Ariana Kukors or do anything with her that
was not consensual,” the statement said. “I absolutely deny having any
sexual or romantic relationship with her before she was old enough to
legally make those decisions for herself. Prior to that time, I did
nothing to ‘groom’ her.”

“Her younger sister also lived with us for several months and her mother
was a regular visitor to our home,” the statement added. “I deeply
regret that she would make these wild allegations all these years
later.”

Sunday, February 04, 2018

This is the third straight year Scott has done this for our swimmers, coaches, and fans. Also helping out was Paul Hodges. Thanks, guys!

Now, let's share some of the more unusual things seen at this year's region meets.

Want me to go first? Okay, here's a start:

1. We had officials standing side-by-side to do relay take-off judging. Even if neither noticed what their neighbor had noted on his/her heat sheet, it's NOT how dual confirmation is supposed to be done. No matter how trusted an officiating crew is, the appearance just isn't good!

2. Our prelim 500 free bell-ringer had some trouble getting a good ring out of the bell. While hundreds looked on in amazement, this official held the bell upside down, shook it vigorously, and just couldn't manage to get much of a ring out of it. This went on, heat after heat. If only we'd gotten some sort of chant going to help out..."Turn it over! Turn it over!"

3. A young man was "counting" for lane 7 swimmer in a consolation final heat of the 500 free. Had his Beats on and was really enjoying himself...until the coach realized his count was off by a couple of lengths. Coach was less than ten (10) feet away, hollering at the guy counting. Zero response. Kid just continued to stare off in to space. Finally, coach hopped up on bulkhead, went over to counter, ripped off headphones, and gave the stunned kid hell. Couldn't help myself...said out loud "You're fired!"

4. Our boy divers were 1st & 4th in region, but our dive coach forgot to register with TISCA this year. As a result, I was recognized as boy diving COTY for saying "Divers, go dive" each afternoon.

5. We had a couple of schools qualify relays for consolation finals that no-showed Saturday. Danged sponsors..

6. There was a tie for 4th in the 50 free. Thinking it could impact call-ups, they had a swim-off after the 400 free relay. Complete waste of time & energy. UIL rules state that ties are broken by prelim times. They didn't tie in prelims, so swim-off wasn't necessary.

If anyone has some video of our bell-ringer or lap counter, please post!